Exposure of remote maritime populations to coplanar PCBs.

• Main Authors: Dewailly, E, Ryan, J J, Laliberté, C, Bruneau, S, Weber, J P, Gingras, S, Carrier, G
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1994
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Lawrence River; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1566874; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8187710

Two remote maritime populations were evaluated for their biological exposure to organochlorines in 1989-1990. Because of their high intake of seafood, these two populations have high biological levels. One hundred nine breast milk samples from Inuit women from Arctic Québec were analyzed to determin...